WHO WE ARE:
• Bert Leahy — Videographer who was hired by Scientology as a Squirrel Buster to harass former Scientology executive, Marty Rathbun, but quit and denounced the evil that Scientology’s thugs were perpetrating. A man with a passion for truth who pours his heart out to help others.

TOUR MISSION:
Filming Bert Leahy’s silver screen documentary “Scientology — Cult of Confusion” is the main purpose of this tour. Bert hopes to interview ex-Scientologists in each city on the itinerary, even church members brave enough to talk on camera. Members of the general public will also be welcome to express their views. To date, numerous ex-Scientologists, Narconon victims, and individuals have contacted us for interviews.

The Suppressa Palooza Tour will provide a great time capsule to gage where the Scientology protest movement is today through the eyes of 3 unique Scientology victims networking with other Scientology victims and ex-Scientologists across North America and abroad. The goal is to cover all sides, with all opinions welcome.

“Scientology — Cult of Confusion” — objectives:
Those involved in the Tour have a common desire to warn the public, media, and government agencies about Scientology’s dangerous and abusive organization.

• Scientology’s front groups include Narconon, the Association for Better Living and Education (ABLE), the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), the Cult Awareness Network, the Way to Happiness Foundation, Applied Scholastics, and many more.

• Tax exemption: In October 1993, the IRS formally announced that the Church of Scientology and its related “social betterment organizations” had been granted tax exemption. We believe and insist that Scientology’s tax exemption should once again be revoked, as it was previously in a 1967 IRS audit.

• Fair Game policy (harassment/intimidation of critics): In 1965, L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, formulated the &quot;Fair Game Law,&quot; which dictates how to deal with suppressive persons (SPs), people who interfere with Scientology's activities. Opponents can be considered &quot;fair game&quot; for retaliation and “May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed.&quot;

• Dead Agenting — In the 1970s, L. Ron Hubbard continued to codify the policy of &quot;attacking the attacker&quot; and assigned a term to it that is used frequently within Scientology: &quot;dead agenting.&quot; Hubbard wrote: &quot;If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace.&quot;

• Disconnection — THIS MUST STOP! Disconnection is the severance of all ties between a Scientologist and a friend, colleague, or family member deemed to be antagonistic towards Scientology. The practice of disconnection is a form of shunning. Among Scientologists, disconnection is viewed as an important method of removing obstacles to one's spiritual growth. In many circumstances, disconnection has ended marriages and separated children from their parents.

• Coerced/Forced Abortions — Scientology’s female Sea Organization members are pressured to have abortions. They are threatened with separation from their families, hard labor, interrogations, and shunning if they do not comply. Although Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard stated his appreciation for families within the Sea Org, Scientology's subsequent leader, David Miscavige, issued an order that children were to be banned in the Sea Org. The mandate by Miscavige asserted that children hampered the productivity of the corps that runs Scientology.

• Families of Critics —Speaking out or engaging in litigation and other battles to expose the cult’s atrocities takes a toll on critics and victims of Scientology. Many family members who have not experienced Scientology don’t understand why. “Why must you continue to fight them?” some ask. The victim is often attacked with vicious lies, and the entire family suffers. Opposing Scientology publicly can be distressing to some, and taking time away from family matters and relationships can be upsetting. This WHY question will be addressed in interviews with critics and victims.

This 27-city tour is indeed an ambitious endeavor to complete in 12 days. However, with the epic business management and logistical skills of Colin Henderson and the creative, hard-working Bert Leahy filming, it shall be done.

The first major film festival was held in Venice in 1932, and now, 80 years later, Bert Leahy will be submitting “Scientology — Cult of Confusion” to film festivals on the silver screen, perhaps even to the world's first online film festival, the GreenCine Online Film Festival, sponsored by DivX, Inc.

Edmund Burke once said: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”

BTW, the main entrance of the org is on Lincoln. The unmarked back doors are around the corner, on Southport. In between them is a restaurant called Pockets.

The back door area is usually pretty dead, and the front is not too much different. Probably they'll shutter up the moment you get there.

There are a couple of short walkways which the cult considers its property. They're the ones with broken tiles that lead from the sidewalk to the front doors. If you step on them, the cult may try to call the police on you. Or they may call the police in any case. But it's been a long time since we've had to deal with law enforcement. They used to whine and lie to them all the time, and I guess the police got fed up and told them enough was enough. Curious to see if they try anything with you. Let me know if you want copies of any legal docs (right to protest, and mask rights) to have on hand.

Dumb question, but you know that a lot of these locations are just little missions that are likely to be closed when you come rolling through, right? Like South Bend is just a tiny little place which I doubt is open on a Wednesday. Just don't want you guys to expect any real action at many of these joints.

Dumb question, but you know that a lot of these locations are just little missions that are likely to be closed when you come rolling through, right? Like South Bend is just a tiny little place which I doubt is open on a Wednesday. Just don't want you guys to expect any real action at many of these joints.

not necessarily. Dallas is a full Org. Definitely not a mission. It's fairly remote though, so if you would like some info on how Dallas Anons roll, reply and I'll send a PM

Springfield, IL is like a tiny little thing run out of someone's house in a residential area.

For Joliet, IL, are you sure there's even a real CoS location there? It sounds like it might be one of those &quot;ghost locations&quot; registered to the CoS and it's actually just an empty office or a PO box or something.

Pittsburgh, I remember, got raided a long time ago, and it was in question whether it was even really an active site. Google Maps review from 9 months ago claims: Shuttered! There's a eviction notice on the door saying they owe their landlord $4000. Do the research, Scientology ruins lives.

I'm sure you guys have done your homework. Just don't want you guys to go in there expecting all kinds of fireworks everywhere, cuz I've no doubt there's a fair number of duds on your itinerary.

Actually, lot of these smaller places haven't been scouted out in a while (at least that I know of), so this will be really interesting to see you go by them and find out if there really are any signs of life.

Dumb question, but you know that a lot of these locations are just little missions that are likely to be closed when you come rolling through, right? Like South Bend is just a tiny little place which I doubt is open on a Wednesday. Just don't want you guys to expect any real action at many of these joints.

We will be in my car fro the entire trip. I was able to pull off the full wrap job, but we be very noticeable with simple lettering on my car. And for driving through the downtown areas there will be a Anon mask on the roof with "SCIENTOLOGY SUX".

If anyone has any suggestions for the text on the roof please advise....it's gotta be very short (2 words).

You know, I probably don't have much "juicy" to offer you in the way of APS Int anyway. Except it was ALWAYS dead, with just staff running around and I personally cashed Will Smith's check for the Scientology school --- LOL. I worked for Bennetta Slaughter and Craig Burton who were directly mixed up with the Lisa McPherson death cover-up, but in all honesty I know nothing else. Mary Benepe worked out there from the start and she made it to Scientology's OT8 then passed away with cancer a couple years after!!!! They tried very hard to keep themselves distanced from "Church of Scientology", so much that they even stopped letting Sea Org guys stay out there for free when they were in town for the local church stuff.

A good friend of ours who was second generation Scientologist and a Sea Org member her whole life until she and her husband "got pregnant" and was sent to our local org ---- committed suicide by hanging herself in 2010. She was clear. (right!!!).

Another long time friend and fellow staff member at the church and at APS Int - Chuck Ridenour and wife Sherry - had their son at Narconon in Oklahoma (I think) on 3 different occasions and he ultimately ended up over dosing and dying back in 2008 or 2009, his name was Jake Ridenour (Jacob) who also went to school with my children way way back in the day (at a Scn based school)! SAD, so very SAD!!

Actually, lot of these smaller places haven't been scouted out in a while (at least that I know of), so this will be really interesting to see you go by them and find out if there really are any signs of life.
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Just to clear things up, some of these stops are just for us to engage the average person in order to gain moar public awareness. I imagine we will talk with over 1000 average joes'.